JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS. 59 
ANNUAL REPORT 
OF THE 
GEOLOGICAL SECTION 
OF 
THE HAMILTON SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION 
For the term ending May goth, rgor. 
To the President, Officers and Members of the Hamilton Scientific 
Association: 
The members of the Geological Section have much 
pleasure in submitting this, the annual report for the session 
ending May goth, 1oor. 
The work of the session has been carried on with the 
the same enthusiastic spirit that has prevailed in the past, 
each member striving to do what he considered best in the 
interest of the Section, to promote and further the objects so 
manifestly evident in like institutions and to foster and develop 
a better acquaintance with this great and important branch of 
science. 
Many new specimens have been added to the museum 
during the last year, some of them new species. ‘These were 
collected from the Barton beds, the Niagara chert and under- 
lying beds in the Clinton formation, the Cambro Silurian, or 
what is most familiarly known as the Hudson River boulders 
and shingle at Hamilton and Winona. 
The acting chairman, Col. C. C. Grant, has sent a large 
number of fossil specimens to different museums, ‘The British 
Museum of Natural History, The Dominion Museum at Ottawa, 
The Washington Museum, andothers. Mr. EK. Ray Lankester, 
director of The British Museum of Natural History, has 
